🔗 Careers are jungle gyms, not ladders
Real careers look more like jungle gyms. You climb up, move sideways, drop down, hang upside down for a while, and sometimes jump across to something new entirely. Progress isn’t measured only by elevation, but by agility, strength, and perspective. The value comes from how many dimensions you can move in, not just how high you can go.
💬 Guy Kawasaki
In case you were wondering where this …
… came from. It came from here:
🔗 Immigrants challenging their detention in historic number of cases
Anybody exploring 🔗 Birdy Chat?
We are thus starting to explicitly recognize this as a first-class skill of “Expert Generalist”.
💬 Martin Fowler
Not a new message - I have been reading it over and over for a long time - even before ‘AI’.
Why? Because it is really about the increased fractionalisation of work - so that the tech overlords can better harvest human skills in order to codify, automate and ‘remove the human from the loop’.
It’s why when asked what I ‘specialise’ in - I have answered - for years …
I am the space between the boxes on the organisation chart.
@canion has written one of handful of posts reviewing two new RSS reeders out in the past week.
Downloaded both today and it is clear that they are very different to the usual.
Muscle memory - and even how I think about my news feed is going to have to be flat-earthed.
🔗 Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers – even as traffic shrinks
If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive, you incentivize your newsroom to create clickbait. You’re ensuring that you have to compete for views for every single article, instead of building a direct relationship with a recurring member who is buying your product because they think it’s worth it overall.
💬 Ben Werdmuller
I would go further.
It also incentivises bad behaviour in music. I am looking at you Spotify.
🔗 A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom
Not an “event”. An “experience.” An “event” is jejune. Basic. Lowbrow. An “experience” is elevated. Refined. Possibly confusing or even a little terrifying.
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